Continuous Deployment Contracts in the UK excluding London

Continuous Deployment
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Continuous Deployment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Deployment over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 347 341
Rank change year-on-year +59 -6 +42
Contract jobs citing Continuous Deployment 47 50 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.24% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.29% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 32 68
10th Percentile £307 £414 £482
25th Percentile £371 £459 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £638
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -9.80% +15.91%
75th Percentile £519 £625 £700
90th Percentile £548 £638 £738
UK median daily rate £521 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -13.17% -4.00% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £60.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £60.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -7.63% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Continuous Deployment falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

Continuous Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Continuous Deployment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Deployment in the UK excluding London

Continuous Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Deployment in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Deployment in the UK excluding London

Continuous Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Deployment in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Deployment in the UK excluding London

Continuous Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Deployment in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Deployment in the UK excluding London

Continuous Deployment
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Deployment within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +5 24 £488 -18.75% 21
North West +10 19 £475 -6.40% 16
South East +45 12 £350 -26.32% 27
Scotland +13 7 £442 - 11
Yorkshire 0 4 £500 -19.61% 4
South West +38 1 £625 +4.17% 6
East of England +30 1 £500 +21.21% 12
Midlands - 1 £550 - 12
North East - 1 £550 - 1
Wales - 1 £650 - 5
West Midlands - 1 £550 - 11
Continuous Deployment
UK

Continuous Deployment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.13%) Apache
1 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (51.06%) AWS
2 18 (38.30%) Azure
3 11 (23.40%) GitHub
4 10 (21.28%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (19.15%) GCP
5 9 (19.15%) Snowflake
6 8 (17.02%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.26%) Apigee
8 2 (4.26%) Serverless
9 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.13%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) DNS
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.40%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (14.89%) MongoDB
3 6 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 4 (8.51%) Data Lake
5 4 (8.51%) MySQL
5 4 (8.51%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.26%) DB2
6 2 (4.26%) ObjectStore
6 2 (4.26%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.13%) Power BI
7 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (36.17%) Git
2 12 (25.53%) Jenkins
3 10 (21.28%) GitLab
4 7 (14.89%) JIRA
5 5 (10.64%) Subversion
6 3 (6.38%) Gradle
6 3 (6.38%) SonarQube
6 3 (6.38%) Xcode
7 2 (4.26%) Artifactory
7 2 (4.26%) CircleCI
7 2 (4.26%) Grunt
7 2 (4.26%) gulp
7 2 (4.26%) Jasmine
7 2 (4.26%) JUnit
7 2 (4.26%) Mocha
7 2 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (4.26%) Visual Studio
8 1 (2.13%) Maven
8 1 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Finance
4 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.51%) Banking
5 4 (8.51%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.13%) Front Office
7 1 (2.13%) Marketing
7 1 (2.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (42.55%) Developer
2 6 (12.77%) Architect
2 6 (12.77%) Senior
3 5 (10.64%) Data Architect
3 5 (10.64%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Java Developer
4 4 (8.51%) Snowflake Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Software Developer
5 3 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) iOS Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (4.26%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Python Data Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) Kafka
2 7 (14.89%) CSS
2 7 (14.89%) HTML
2 7 (14.89%) RESTful
3 6 (12.77%) Node.js
3 6 (12.77%) OAuth
4 5 (10.64%) AngularJS
4 5 (10.64%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (10.64%) REST
5 4 (8.51%) OAuth2
5 4 (8.51%) OpenID
5 4 (8.51%) React
5 4 (8.51%) SAML
5 4 (8.51%) Spring
6 3 (6.38%) .NET
6 3 (6.38%) ADO
6 3 (6.38%) GraphQL
6 3 (6.38%) gRPC
6 3 (6.38%) jQuery
6 3 (6.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.38%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.38%) Mobile Banking
2 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.26%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.13%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
1 4 (8.51%) Unix
2 3 (6.38%) Android
2 3 (6.38%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.26%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.13%) Windows
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (80.85%) CI/CD
2 35 (74.47%) Continuous Integration
3 22 (46.81%) Agile
4 17 (36.17%) DevOps
5 15 (31.91%) Containerisation
6 12 (25.53%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (25.53%) RBAC
7 11 (23.40%) Analytics
7 11 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (23.40%) Scrum
7 11 (23.40%) TDD
7 11 (23.40%) Test Automation
8 10 (21.28%) Data Security
8 10 (21.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (19.15%) Digital Twin
9 9 (19.15%) ETL
9 9 (19.15%) SDLC
9 9 (19.15%) Visualisation
10 8 (17.02%) Microservices
10 8 (17.02%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (42.55%) Python
2 16 (34.04%) SQL
3 14 (29.79%) Java
4 12 (25.53%) JavaScript
5 8 (17.02%) Bash
6 4 (8.51%) Go
7 3 (6.38%) C
7 3 (6.38%) C++
7 3 (6.38%) Kotlin
7 3 (6.38%) Objective-C
7 3 (6.38%) Ruby
7 3 (6.38%) Scala
7 3 (6.38%) Swift
7 3 (6.38%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.26%) C#
9 1 (2.13%) Perl
9 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.13%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (12.77%) Degree
3 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.38%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.13%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) GDPR
1 6 (12.77%) HIPAA
2 5 (10.64%) QA
3 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (34.04%) Kubernetes
2 11 (23.40%) Terraform
3 3 (6.38%) Istio
3 3 (6.38%) Kustomize
4 2 (4.26%) Ansible
5 1 (2.13%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (4.26%) Google
3 2 (4.26%) IBM
3 2 (4.26%) Sybase
4 1 (2.13%) Aruba
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco
4 1 (2.13%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle